Morgan Freeman
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-06-01
Place of Birth
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Morgan Freeman
Biography
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. Noted for his distinctive deep voice, Freeman is known for his various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was raised in Mississippi where he began acting in school plays. He studied theatre arts in Los Angeles and appeared in stage productions in his early career. He rose to fame in the 1970s for his role in the children's television series The Electric Company. Freeman then appeared in the Shakespearean plays Coriolanus and Julius Caesar, the former of which earned him an Obie Award. His breakout role was in Street Smart (1987), playing a hustler, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He achieved further stardom in Glory, the biographical drama Lean on Me, and comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (all 1989), the latter of which garnered him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1992, Freeman starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the western revenge film Unforgiven; this would be the first of several collaborations with Eastwood. In 1994, he starred in the prison drama The Shawshank Redemption for which he received another Academy Award nomination. Freeman also starred in David Fincher's crime thriller Se7en (1995), and Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997). Freeman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama Million Dollar Baby. In 2009, he received his fifth Oscar nomination for playing former South African President Nelson Mandela in Eastwood's Invictus. Freeman is also known for his performance as Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). In addition to acting, Freeman has directed the drama Bopha! (1993). He also founded film production company Revelations Entertainment with business partner Lori McCreary. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. For his performances in theatrical productions, he has won three Obie Awards, one of the most prestigious honors for recognizing excellence in theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Morgan Freeman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
Unforgiven
Aug 07, 1992
Million Dollar Baby
Dec 05, 2004
War of the Worlds
Jun 28, 2005
The Dark Knight
Jul 16, 2008
Lucky Number Slevin
Feb 24, 2006
Batman Begins
Jun 10, 2005
The Shawshank Redemption
Sep 23, 1994
Bruce Almighty
May 23, 2003
Driving Miss Daisy
Dec 13, 1989
Johnny Handsome
Sep 12, 1989
Sniff
Along Came a Spider
Apr 06, 2001
The Contract
Apr 05, 2006
Brubaker
Jun 20, 1980
Unleashed
Feb 02, 2005
Se7en
Sep 22, 1995
Under Suspicion
Aug 24, 2000
Edison
Jul 29, 2005
10 Items or Less
Sep 11, 2006
An Unfinished Life
Sep 09, 2005
Evan Almighty
Jun 09, 2007
Nurse Betty
Aug 30, 2000
The Sum of All Fears
May 31, 2002
Gone Baby Gone
Sep 18, 2007
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Sep 23, 2005
Levity
Mar 16, 2003
Hard Rain
Jan 16, 1998
Invictus
Dec 11, 2009
High Crimes
Apr 05, 2002
The Bucket List
Dec 25, 2007
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Sep 01, 1990
Dreamcatcher
Mar 21, 2003
Outbreak
Mar 10, 1995
Teachers
Oct 05, 1984
Amistad
Dec 10, 1997
The Maiden Heist
May 09, 2009
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Jun 14, 1991
Eyewitness
Feb 13, 1981
Deep Impact
May 08, 1998
Chain Reaction
Aug 02, 1996
Wanted
Jun 19, 2008
The Hunting of the President
Apr 27, 2004
Kiss the Girls
Sep 29, 1997
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Sep 02, 2005
The Big Bounce
Jan 30, 2004
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Dec 21, 1990
The People Speak
Dec 13, 2009
Glory
Dec 15, 1989
Cosmic Voyage
Aug 09, 1996
The Power of One
Mar 27, 1992
Death of a Prophet
Jan 01, 1981
Clean and Sober
Aug 10, 1988
Feast of Love
Sep 28, 2007
Lean On Me
Mar 03, 1989
Thick as Thieves
Jan 09, 2009
Street Smart
Mar 20, 1987
Gunner
Aug 16, 2024
Prom Night in Mississippi
Jan 15, 2009
Dolphin Tale
Sep 22, 2011
Guilty by Association
Jul 22, 2003
That Was Then... This Is Now
Nov 08, 1985
RED
Oct 13, 2010
The Dark Knight Rises
Jul 17, 2012
Betty White: A Celebration
Jan 17, 2022
Moll Flanders
Jun 14, 1996
Born to Be Wild
Apr 08, 2011
Resting Place
Apr 27, 1986
The Minute You Wake Up Dead
Nov 04, 2022
Harry & Son
Mar 02, 1984
The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Aug 20, 2023
Oblivion
Apr 10, 2013
Now You See Me
May 29, 2013
57 Seconds
Sep 29, 2023
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
Jan 16, 2012
Paradise Highway
Jul 29, 2022
Marie: A True Story
Sep 27, 1985
Breaking the Taboo
Jun 03, 2011
The Magic of Belle Isle
Jul 06, 2012
Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United
Feb 27, 2019
Clinton and Nadine
May 04, 1988
Inside the White House
Jan 01, 1996
The True Story of Glory Continues
Jun 19, 1991
The Long Way Home
Sep 19, 1997
The Eastwood Factor
Feb 16, 2010
The Execution of Raymond Graham
Nov 17, 1985
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
Feb 27, 1996
Olympus Has Fallen
Mar 20, 2013
Transcendence
Apr 16, 2014
The Little Bedroom
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Oct 15, 2012
Last Vegas
Oct 31, 2013
The Lego Movie
Feb 06, 2014
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Sep 09, 1999
The Marva Collins Story
Dec 01, 1981
JFK: A President Betrayed
Nov 23, 2013
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar
Apr 03, 2014
Lucy
Jul 25, 2014
Dolphin Tale 2
Sep 11, 2014
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Jan 15, 2013
Attica
Mar 02, 1980
London Has Fallen
Mar 02, 2016
Fight for Life
Mar 23, 1987
5 Flights Up
May 10, 2014
Wish Wizard
Apr 29, 2014
We the People
Jan 06, 2014
Blues Divas
Jan 22, 2005
Now You See Me 2
Jun 02, 2016
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Jun 02, 1978
Night of 100 Stars III
May 21, 1990
Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers
Jan 01, 2021
Echoes 'Cross the Tracks
Mar 01, 2012
Ben-Hur
Aug 17, 2016
My Dead Friend Zoe
Mar 09, 2024
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Nov 12, 2017
Last Knights
Apr 03, 2015
The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
Jan 01, 2013
Ted 2
Jun 25, 2015
Momentum
Oct 15, 2015
Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo
Mar 21, 2012
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office
Nov 24, 2010
Going in Style
Apr 06, 2017
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Jun 13, 1991
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Sep 27, 2000
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Apr 27, 2013
Die Clint Eastwood Story
Feb 07, 2018
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Nov 13, 2022
Clint Eastwood's West
Jul 06, 2011
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
Oct 07, 2004
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Jun 20, 2007
Sidney
Sep 10, 2022
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mar 01, 2005
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
Nov 12, 2025
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Jun 19, 1968
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
Jan 01, 2010
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Jan 01, 1998
Declaration of Independence
Jun 10, 2003
Just Getting Started
Dec 01, 2017
How to Rob a Bank
Jun 04, 2024
The C Word
Jul 28, 2016
The Earth Day Special
Apr 22, 1990
Caught in the Middle
Dec 16, 1970
The Gospel at Colonus
Nov 08, 1985
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Oct 26, 2018
Out to Lunch
Dec 10, 1974
Odysseus Returns
Jan 17, 2024
Conan the Barbarian
Aug 17, 2011
Blade
Dec 01, 1973
Angel Has Fallen
Aug 21, 2019
The Words That Built America
Jul 04, 2017
A Raisin in the Sun
Feb 25, 2008
The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Jan 01, 1991
Where the Water Meets the Sky
Jun 06, 2008
The Poison Rose
May 23, 2019
America's Musical Journey
May 17, 2018
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
Sep 08, 2001
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
May 02, 2006
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Jun 14, 2021
The Pawnbroker
Apr 20, 1965
Partners of the Heart
Jun 01, 2002
Brian Banks
Aug 09, 2019
The Comeback Trail
Nov 12, 2020
Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation
Mar 09, 2004
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Sep 24, 2002
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Sep 24, 2002
The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits
Nov 25, 2006
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
May 10, 2020
Ending the Knight
Dec 04, 2012
The 16th Man
May 04, 2010
Into Nature's Wild
Feb 14, 2020
Meeting the Beatles in India
Sep 09, 2020
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Sep 24, 2013
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
Jun 19, 1968
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Nov 18, 1971
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Jun 18, 2021
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Mar 16, 1966
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
Aug 04, 2015
A Good Person
Mar 23, 2023
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Apr 16, 2021
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Mar 04, 2021
All About Us
Oct 01, 2007
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Jun 24, 1979
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Jun 13, 2006
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Mar 09, 2023
Rabbit Ears - The Savior is Born
Sep 01, 1990
CLINT
SBALKANU
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Mar 25, 1997
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Jan 01, 2022
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Aug 01, 2017
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Sep 17, 1992
Clint Eastwood : la légende
May 23, 2025
Energy Crisis
Apr 05, 1974
James Lipton Takes on Three
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Born to Fight
Jul 12, 2005
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
Today
Jan 14, 1952
The Twilight Zone
Sep 27, 1985
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
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Oct 25, 1971
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Oct 25, 1971
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Oct 25, 1971
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Jun 27, 2019
The Jay Leno Show
Sep 14, 2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Civil War
Sep 23, 1990
Pebble Mill
Oct 14, 1991
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Feb 09, 2005
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Mar 19, 1953
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Dec 28, 1978
Live from Studio Five
Sep 14, 2009
30 for 30
Oct 06, 2009
Through the Wormhole
Jun 09, 2010
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
The Promised Land
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
100 Years of Warner Bros.
May 25, 2023
History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Nov 09, 2021
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Curiosity
Aug 07, 2011
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
Apr 03, 2016
Spidey Super Stories
Oct 21, 1974
Spidey Super Stories
Oct 21, 1974
Spidey Super Stories
Oct 21, 1974
Spidey Super Stories
Oct 21, 1974
The Chris Rock Show
Feb 07, 1997
Lioness
Jul 23, 2023
The Muppets Mayhem
May 10, 2023
CBS News Sunday Morning
Jan 28, 1979
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
Oct 11, 2017
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
60 Minutes
Sep 24, 1968
American Experience
Oct 04, 1988
America Beyond the Color Line
Feb 03, 2004
The Atlanta Child Murders
Feb 10, 1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Reichen Show
Nov 11, 2005
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
American Masters
Jun 23, 1986
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
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Goldene Kamera Verleihung
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The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Honest Trailers
Feb 13, 2012
Our Universe
Nov 22, 2022
Life on Our Planet
Oct 25, 2023
Solos
May 21, 2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Sep 09, 2021
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Jun 02, 1978
HBO First Look
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Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
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Jan 09, 1998
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The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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Golden Globe Awards
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The Jennifer Hudson Show
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Mar 27, 2025
Madam Secretary
Sep 21, 2014
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Sep 21, 2014
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953